Dress trim



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DRESS TRIM Filed Sept. 27, 1947 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Dec. 12, 1950 UNITED sTATEs rATENT oFFicE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in strip-formtextile trim for use on millinery, garments or wherever founddecoratively useful.

The object of the invention is to obtain a new article of manufacture soconstituted that the same is comprised merely of a pair of like standardbraids, of a kind readily purchaseable on the open market, whether alikein coloration or wholly or predominantly difierent in color, therefi byto produce a novel article having a uniquely attractive decorativeeffect.

The braid employed is what is sometimes called serpentine braid, but thesame is more generally i known today as rick-rack trim. This braid is sowoven that it has a zig-zag continuty along its length, whichzig-zagging is self-sustaining and so persists during the life of thebraid.

The new article of manufacture is made simply by effecting aninterweaving or intertwining engagement between the two braids. This isdone by arranging the successive portions of one braid which extend inopposite directions obliquely relative to the general line of extensionof that braid so that said portions are liad fiatwisely across thesuccessive similar portions of the other braid. As a result solely ofthis step, it was discovered that the two braids become permanentlyedgewisely interlocked at two points along each such portion of eachbraid. The new article, which may be designated a duplex rick-rack trim,has an unusual and novel surface appearance, which is very marked indeedwhen the two braids are wholiy or predominantly of diiferent colors; andthe new article, further, has a distinctive serrated shape along its twosides over its entire length.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended claim in which the variousnovel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the acccmpanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a Composite view showing short lengths of the two likerick-rack braids of the familiar kind.

Fig. 2 shows on an enlarged scale a length of the new duplex rick-racktrim constituted by the two braids of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing an end portion of the new article,with the two braids partially disengaged.

Referring to the drawing more in detail, the 55 braid ID of Fig. 1 is,as is well known, characterized by a zig--zag continuity, composed ofregularly alternating portions il and I2. Every portion II and iz, thetwo adjoining ones of which may be consic ered to provide a zig-zagunit, extends obliquely and at an angle of about 45 to the general lineof extension of the braid. Thus each portion Il is at about a 90 angleto the adjoining portion EZ, and vice versa. Each joinder of a portionli and a portion l2 at a point inset from one side of the braid will becalled a reentrant recess M, and each joinder of a portion l2 with aportion ll at a point inset from the opposite side of the braid will becalled a reentrant recess 15.

The braid iii of Fig. l is exactly like the braid Hi. The oppositelyinclined portions of the zigzag units of the braid IE are marked l'l andI 8. The recess resulting from each joinder of a portion i'l with aportion IS at a point inset from one side of the braid IE is marked l9,and the recess resulting from each joinder of a portion IB with aportion at a point inset from the opposite side of said braid is marked20.

When the two braids are interwoven or intertwined, to effect lookingengagement between their recesses, the new article of Fig. 2 isproduced. In thus making the'new article of the two braids of Fig. l,and assuming the start of the intertwining is at the ends of said braidsat the left in Fig. l, first the two recesses [4 and IS diagrammaticallycoupled by the Vertical dot and dash line 2l of Fig. 1 are interengaged,then the two recesses |5 and Z diagrammatically coupled by l theVertical dot and dash line 22 of Fig. 1 are interengaged, then the nexttwo pair of recesses M and IB are interengaged, then the next pair ofrecesses I5 and 20 are interengaged, and so on. When all the recessesalong the lengths of both braids are so engaged, they become interlockedagainst casual or acoidental disengagement; as will become understoodwhen it is noted that a lateral pull on either side of the new articlein a direction to cause disengagement of any one pair of interengagedrecesses is effectively opposed by a tightening up of a next adjoiningpair of interengaged recesses.

In thus physically coupling the two braids by Way of their oppositelyfacing recesses, to complete the new article as in Fig. 2, all that isrequired is, With the two braids arranged to have their fiats generallymaintained substantially parallel, first to move one of the braidsedgewisely relative to and in one direction laterally of the other toeffect one of the aforesaid engagements, then to move the last mentionedbraid edgewisely relative to and in the opposite direction laterally ofthe latter to effect the next of said engagements, and so on. o

The braids ID and IB thereby are progressively interwoven orintertwined, and in such manner that every portion Il of the braid lflatwisely crosses a different portion I'l of the braid IG, and everyportion l2 of the braid In flatwisely crosses a diif'erent portion IB ofthezbr'aid lfifand also in such manner that, at either side of the' newarticle, according as a portion overlies or underlies a portion l'l, aportion IZ underlies or overlies a portion I8.

The side of the new article shown in Fig. 2 is the side thereof showingthe portion -H of :the braid IG overlyingly crossing the portions ll ofthe braid l, and with the portions [8 of the braid IG underlyinglycrossing the portions 12 of the braid ID. Thus zin Fig. 2, all theportions lzl jarefsubstan-tially hidden, except for thatone Fthereofthere Vindicatedin broken lines and the tpart of `the one thereoffragmentarily seen at 'the zleft`of'-Fig.:2. 'IFhisirelationship of theparts is -picto'rially made fullytclear, however, at the lleft 1s`id'e-of fFig. 3.

'While -I fhave illustrated and described the -preferred embodiment ofmy invention, it is to :beu'nderstood that I 'do not limit myself to thefprecise =construction herein disclosed and the A new article ofmanufacture comprising a pair of fiat ribbons, each of said ribbonsbeing zig-zagged laterally forming alternate portions extended at anglesof '9o degrees with relation to each other forming at'ernate reentrantrecesses along opposite sides of each ribbon, said ribbons beinginterlaced to form a flat composite `ribbon with the recesses extendedinward from opposite sides of the ribbons nterengaged and the-portionsof the ribbons which extend inopposite directions flatwisely passingalternately over and under one another. LA ZONA MCCLINTOCK.

REFERENCES VCl'lfill) 'The following references are of record 'in ithe-ijil-e fef this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name l Date 237,026 vKnauff Jan. 25, 18811490,091 Berlin c Julye, 1916 l 2,029fll2 Rabinowitz Feb. 4, 1936

